Summary
A classic study of the Japanese psyche, a starting point for a true understanding Japanese behavior.
The discovery that a major concept of human feeling—easily expressed in everyday Japanese—totally resisted translation into a Western language led Dr. Takeo Doi to explore and define an area of the psyche which has previously received little attention. The resulting essay, The Anatomy of Dependence, is one of the most penetrating analyses of the Japanese mind ever written, as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568365510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1568365519 |
| Author: | Takeo Doi |
| Publisher: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Imprint: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 186mm |
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Critics Review
“Sensitive, original, and penetrating.” —Robert J. Lifton, M.D., Yale University
“A major contribution to the science of human behavior in general and to psychotherapy in particular.” —William P. Lebra. University of Hawaii
“An extraordinary insight into the Japanese character.” —S. I. Hayakawa
“Perhaps the first book by a Japanese trained in psychiatry to have an impact on Western psychiatric thinking.” —Ezra VogeI, Harvard University
Takeo Doi
TAKEO DOI (b. 1920), M.D., has served as a professor at the University of Tokyo and International Christian University, Tokyo, and is one of Japan’s leading psychiatrists. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942. He held a number of posts at American institutes and universities, including fellowships at the Menninger School of Psychiatry and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and was visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He also headed the psychiatric department at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo. Doi has published a number of works and contributed to many more, including The Anatomy of Self.
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